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I know that the pros and cons have been debated furiously about whether to rack or not to rack into a secondary. I've tried to research on these forums, The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, and several homebrewing stores in the area, and I've gotten lots of different answers. I think I...

Exact thing happened to me, skullbaby. I posted the other day about it, pretty much everybody said it was because the lager yeast wasn't meant to be fermented at higher temperature. I'm a bit annoyed with the kit, but so it goes. Hopefully both your and my beer will get better with time. Here's...

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll give it some time, hopefully the taste will improve with age. In the meantime, I'll stick with ales. Brew on, brewers.

I used a Brewer's Best Munich Helles kit. Ingredients were 3.3lbs Pilsen LME, 3.3lbs Munich LME, 4 oz Honey malt, 4 oz Vienna malt, 8 oz Carapils, 0.5 oz bittering hops, 0.5 oz flavoring hops, and lager yeast. Pitched my yeast when the wort was about 60 degrees (give or take). Had the wort in...

Hey everybody - just drank my first brew the other night! I posted a while back about a possible infection, but you all quite rightly reassured me, and thank you for that. My beer turned out fairly well. It's a Munich Helles that I brewed as an ale in a secondary. Smells great, good light...

Thanks for all the replies, everyone! Compared to some other infections I saw, it looks pretty benign. You've already put my mind much at ease, and I can't wait to try my beer. Happy brewing!

Hey everybody. I've got another "is it ruined?" question. I'm a newbie, my first batch is in my secondary fermentor right now, so I really don't know what I'm doing. So here's the story: I got a Munich Helles lager kit, brewed it up, put it in my primary fermenter. I don't have the...